Printing press delivery apparatus



(No Model.) 5 Sheets-Sheet 1. S. G. GOSS. PRINTING PRESS DELIVERY APPARATUS. No. 432,036.

Patented July 15 (No Model.) 5 Sheets-Sheet 2.

S. G. GOSS. PRINTING PRESS DELIVERY APPARATUS. No. 432,036. Patented July 15, 1890.

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PRINTING PRESS DELIVERY APPARATUS.

Patented July 15 (No Model.) 5 Sheetssheet 4.

vS. G. GOSS. PRINTING PRESS DELIVERY APPARATUS. No. LEZ-,0316.` Y Patented July 15, 1890.

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PRINTING PRESS DELIVERY APPARATUS. No. 432,036. Patented July 15, 1890.

lrares SAMUEL G. COSS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO TlIE COSS PRINTING PRESS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PRINTING-FRESS DELIVERY APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 432,036,

dated July 15, 1890.

Application filed December 5, 1889. Serial No. 332,722. (No model.)

T0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL G. GOSs,resid-F ing at Chicago, in the county of Cool; and State of Illinois, and a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Printing-Press Delivery Apparatus, of which the following is aA specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a plan, no paper being shown. Fig. 2 is a plan representing one end only of the apparatus, paper being shown therein. Fig. is a side elevation. Fig. 4 is a front view of the upper part of the apparatus, the printiiig-cylinders not being shown and the frame being in section, paper also being shown. Fig. 5 is a detail and is a sectional side view .lowing the location and arrangement of the printing-cylinders, thc slitting device, the cutting-cylinders, transfer-guide, and the delivery-tapes.

The leading objects of myinvention are to provide improved devices by means of which one sheet can be transferred laterally and brought intoj uxtaposition with another sheet, so that the two can be manipulated together; to so arrange the slitting-cutter, the cuttingcylinders, and transfer-guide that they will occupy but little room longitudinally, thereby making a more compact machine, to dispense with the use of deliverytapes between the printing -cylinders and the transfer-guide, and to provide devices for carrying the paper around the transfer-guide without the use of delivery-tapes, all of which I accomplish as illustrated in the drawings, and as hereinafter described.

That which I claim as new will be set forth in the claims.

My improvement is primarily designed or adapted to be used in connection with a printing-press by means of which a wide web is printed upon both sides, which web is then divided longitudinally, and in the drawings one of the two sheets shown is supposed to be a four-page sheet and the other a sheet of two pages.

In the drawings, A B are two blanket-cylindcrs.

C D are two plate-cylinders.

. guide E.

a is a slitting-cutter mounted on a shaft h.

c is a roller provided with a groove to receive a slitting-cutter, as usual.

E is a transfer-guide, which is arranged somewhat diagonally to the line of travel of the paper. This guide is made of sheet metal, preferably steel, bent into the form shown in the drawings.

F G are two bars, the ends of which are secured to uprights III on opposite sides of the 6o frame, and these uprigh ts may be regarded as parts of the frame. The transfer-guide is firmly secured to these two bars, which do not extend directly across the machine, but are bent, as shown in Figs. l and 2', to con- 65 forni to the diagonal or oblique position of the transfer-guide. As shown, the ends of this transfer-guide are free and are not directly supported, and one 'end of this guide is, as shown, bent over a little upon itself, so 7o as to present a rounding surface.

l J K are two cutting-cylinders supported in suitable bearings. The cylinder J is provided with a recess e, and the other cylinder K is provided with a knife or cutter f. This recess and the cutter do not extend the whole length of their respective cylinders, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. l. As represented, this recess and knife extend a little more than two-thirds of the length'of their 8o respective cylinders.

g is a gear-wheel on the shaft of the cutting-cylinder J, and h is another gear-wheel on the same shaft, but a little larger than the wheel g.

i is a gear-wheel on the shaft which carries the cutting-cylinder K.

j are a number of rollers 4fixed upon a shaft 7e, each roller being provided on its periphery with a ring of rubber Z, which rings are in 9o close proximity with the cylinder K. rlhe shaft le is provided on one end with a small gear-wheel m.

n are rollers mounted on a shaft o. Each roller is provided with a rubber ring 19ar- 95 ranged in close proximity with the transfer- The shaft ois provided with a sin all gear-wheel q, with which the gear-wheel 71, engages, and this gear-wheel q cn gages with the gear-wheel m. roo

L M are delivery-tapes,which run over taperollers 7.

s, Fig. 3, is an idlerbetween the gear-wheel g and the small gear-wheel t on one of the tape-roller shafts. The idler s is supported on a stud.

N is a web of paper. OPare the two parts of such web after the same has been cut by thc slitting-knife.

Q represents a sheet of four pages after the ame has been severed by the cutting-cyliners.

R represents a sheet of two pages in j uxtaposition .with the four-page sheet.

S represents a folding-blade.

The operation isl as follows: The web of paper passes upward from the printing-cylin-A ders between the slitting-cutterct and the roller 0, by the action of which it will be divided into two parts, which two parts will then pass up between the rollers j and the cylinder K. The wide piece O of the severed web will pass between the cuttingcylinders and from thence directly to the delivery-tapes L IWI. rI he narrow piece P of the paper at the same time passes between the two cutting-cylinders J K and is carried up over and around the transfer-guide E, and then passes between rollers n and the adjoining` end of the transfer-guide, and will pass a second time to the cutting-cylinders, having then been brought 1nto juxtaposition with one-half of the part O of the severed web, and the two parts 0 P of the web will pass from the cutting-cylinders to the delivery-tapesLlvI. The two parts ot' the web after they have been brought into juxtaposition will be cut into sheets by the action of the cutting-cylinders J K. I/Vhen the operation commences, the end of the web must be directed by hand up between the slittingcutter a and roller c, and the two parts O P must in like manner be directed between the rollers j and the cylinder K, and the part P of the web must in like manner be directed over and around the transfer-guide E and between the `rollers n and the adjoining end of such transfer-guide and be brought a second time to the cylinders J K, from which the two parts of the web will be carried to the delivery-tapes LM. Aftertheoperationcommencestherollers 5o j n and the cylinders J K will carry the paper forward continuously. The tapes L M run somewhat faster than the cutting-cylinders, so that after the sheets have been severed they will travel a little faster than does the web, 5 5 thereby leaving a space between the ends of the adjoining severed sheets, as indicated in Fig. 2. The cutting-cylinder J islocated within the transfer-gui de E, which nearly surrounds such cylinder, a little space being left between 6o the two ends of the transfer-guide,-where the cutting devices can operate. By this arrangement of the cutting-cylinders I am able to make the machine more compact than it would be possible if the cutting-cylinders were arranged in the usual manner.

Vh-at I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

l. In sheet-delivery apparatus, a transferguide, in combination with two cutting-cylin 7o ders, one of which is located within thetransfer-guide, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of a cutting-cylinder K, vfeed-rollers Z, cutting-cylinder J, a transferguide partly surrounding the cylinder J, and feed-rollers n, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

SAMUEL G. GOSS.

Witnesses:

ALBERT H. ADAMS, ROBERT A. MILLAR. 

